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  • Curtius relates, triduum jacuit ad moriendum obstinatus, lay three days together upon the ground, obstinate, to die with him, and would neither eat, drink, nor sleep.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And the accursed thing, after nearly pinching off three fingers, and scalding me with seething water, and spluttering and sputtering enough to have terrified any man but Friar Bungey out of his skin, is obstinatus ut mulum, -- dogged as a mule; and was absolutely good for nought, till I happily thought of separating this vessel from all the rest of the gear, and it serves now for the boiling my eggs!

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Bungey out of his skin, is obstinatus ut mulum, -- dogged as a mule; and was absolutely good for nought, till I happily thought of separating this vessel from all the rest of the gear, and it serves now for the boiling my eggs!

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • _tincture_ of what they call in Latin _damnatus obstinatus mulio_, the attempt will be difficult, and the success uncertain.

    Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815

  • "Anno sequenti [MCCCCXXXIII] accusatus est Paulus Crawar Teutonicus, xxiij. die mensis Julij, apud Sanctum Andream, et hæreticus obstinatus repertus, convictus est et condemnatus, et ad ignem applicatus et incineratus.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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